Chapter 157: Stone Spirit
I knew that the situation was not good, and I was going to set up a device to ambush the zombies first, and then open the bronze coffin, but no one expected that there was a chain in this tomb, and there was a wooden tomb hidden underneath, and the force of the bronze coffin falling down was too great, so the chain and heavy lock were loosened, and the mysterious bronze mirror also fell. If the ancient corpses inside crawl out first, the situation will take a sharp turn for us up, but it will be very unfavorable.
At this time, my blood was surging, and I had no time to think about it, so I took the bronze mirror and shouted to the fat man and Shirley Young, "Get the tape out!" As he spoke, he jumped into the wooden coffin below (the burial chamber made of wood is called a wooden coffin, not the coffin of a coffin as it is commonly said).
As soon as I landed, I almost twisted my foot and neck, and the rectangular thick wood was already rotten, and when I stepped on it, I sank into a piece, and black water suddenly rose up. The cold smoke was still burning, and in the firelight, I saw that in the gap of the copper coffin, there was a layer of cold wooden coffin board, and the lid of the coffin board had broken two large holes, from which several long circles of nails were exposed, and those nails were all white and very sharp; Because it was so long, the nails were bent, and the sound we heard in the burial chamber was made by the nails scratching the lid of the copper coffin.
I didn't care about the pain in my ankles, and I didn't want to carefully appreciate the shape of the nails, so I immediately picked up the bronze mirror in my hand, pressed it into the groove behind the copper coffin, and jumped on the lid of the bronze coffin.
Shirley Yang jumped into the coffin and handed me a roll of duct tape, she was half a step too late to see what was in the coffin, so she asked me, "What's inside?" ”
I pressed the tape to the bronze mirror layer by layer, and said to her, "What else could there be, it was nothing more than a walking corpse, I don't know why this bronze mirror could stop it, it seemed that as soon as it was taken away, its nails grew rapidly." The fat man also jumped down, and when he heard my words, he immediately said, "I know that this mirror is a good thing, and when we retreat, find a way to follow it, and resolutely not leave a single grass or tree to the enemy." ”
I saw that the bronze coffin was re-contained, and it was expected that there would be no major problem for the time being, and I looked up at the upper burial chamber, which was full of black rotten wood coffins, with a height of less than three meters, and the water seepage inside was very serious, and the moisture choked people. Originally, I wanted the fat man to stay on top to answer, but it looks like below. If anything goes wrong, it's not a problem to climb up directly. And to open the coffin below, the three of them can have a care together, so they said to the fat man and Shirley Yang: "There is a coffin in the corner of the wooden coffin, and I don't know if it is used to decorate the king. ”
In order to facilitate movement, we all turned on the tactical spotlights on the mountaineering helmets, only to see that the coffin was pressed by a few fallen square logs, and I was most worried that these rotten woods would collapse at any time, burying us alive below, so I started to find two or three of the collapsed woods, which were still strong, and propped them up next to the gap that was smashed by the bronze coffin, so as to bear the load.
When I was working, I thought: these square pieces of wood, also known as "wooden fangs". Originally, it was layered and built into a structure, which seemed very tight, and it was rotten to such an extent that it should be a yellow intestine-colored "wooden fang", which became pitch black and rotten. It is said that this "Tomb of the Sacrifice King" is a fairy cave that is round and mellow, how can this kind of cave be eroded into this way, and there is a corpse that is so angry that there is a black star omen of "black pig crossing the heavenly river", and no matter what, it is very unreasonable to have the ancient corpse with signs of corpse change in the bronze coffin, it seems that the deepest part of this thousand-year-old tomb must be hiding something terrifying.
With our rapid cleanup, the ancient coffin covered by the rotten wood gradually appeared, I wiped off the residue and muddy water of the rotten wood with my hands, the blue fluorescence on the ancient coffin was more obvious, the whole coffin was smooth like a mirror, like a piece of blue ice from the depths of the ice sea, shining with a charming luster, the fat man praised repeatedly: "his ancestors***, why is this coffin more valuable than the other, this ...... What is this made of? Is it jade? Crystal? Or ice? "After that, I stroked it again and again, and I couldn't put it down.
I shook my head and said, "I don't know, when I was a sapper, I dug for so many years, and when the geological survey team visited, I couldn't count the number of ore chips, but I had never seen this kind of stone, it didn't seem to be ice, except that it was very slippery, it was not cold." ”
Shirley Yang was attracted by this strange ancient coffin, and he always looked at it carefully, and then he said: "It is a blue stone essence rock, or a variant of crystal, which can only be formed in underground superimposed caves. ”
The stone spirit is recorded in the ancient books, it is a stone only in the valley near the underworld, it is said that there is a kind of stone mill made of stone spirit in hell, all the people who are extremely evil, after falling into the netherworld, they will inevitably be crushed by the stone mill, there is a black dog in the ground, waiting to stick out his tongue to lick the meat sauce that has been crushed, and the remaining minced meat will turn into flies, mosquitoes, and be beaten by people in the world, and there will never be a day of transcendence.
Of course, it is a superstitious legend, but one thing is certain, although this blue "stone spirit" is dazzling, but this thing is not very auspicious, and it is not suitable as a coffin, let alone used to hold the bones of nobles.
It seems that this is definitely a "ghost coffin" from the netherworld, what is the purpose of it? Why is hidden in the gloomy and damp wooden coffin under the tomb, the "wooden coffin" that is not sealed or not the tree is very common around the Western Zhou Dynasty, but in the Qin and Han dynasties, it has been rarely used, we have found ten "immortal candles" in the tomb, the bones in the "ghost coffin" in front of us, will it be one of the corresponding ten corpses? There are so many questions that I don't have a clue at all.
Shirley Yang looked at the bronze coffin behind him and said, "The coffins in the king's tomb are extremely rare, and people are puzzled; The more this is the case, the more it feels like walking on ice in the abyss, and we must find a breakthrough point to completely uncover the secrets buried in the tomb of King Xian. ”
I said to Shirley Yang and the fat man: "It is better to break one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers, then take various methods to break them, see the coffin to rise to the coffin, see the wealth and make a fortune, let's do it, hang up the stumbling rope, and see if this ghost coffin is a sacrifice to the king." ”
The fat man immediately rolled up his arms and sleeves: "I am too good at these hooks to raise the coffin and make a fortune, so I often practice in my sleep, I am not afraid of a thousand tricks, I am afraid of a trick, you two go to install the stumbling rope, the work of opening the coffin, the fat man will be all covered by himself." ”
I patted the fat man on the shoulder: "Good Commander Wang, the vicissitudes of the sea, show the true character of a hero, but remember, with a red heart, you must prepare with both hands, and beware of corpse mutation while touching the weapon, both hands must be grasped, both hands must be hard, in addition, there is corpse gas in the coffin in ancient times, remember to check the gas mask in advance, and don't keep up with the ...... in the Northeast. Forgot to wear gloves. After I told the fat man, he split up and found three red ropes soaked in cinnabar, Shirley Yang was always curious about zombies, so he asked me: "Old Hu, why are zombies afraid of red cinnabar?" ”
I said to Shirley Yang: "This kind of thing has to ask the blind fortune teller to know, I don't know very well, but I estimate that cinnabar is useless, this principle is, use a rope to block the coffin, the corpse inside is stiff and can't bend, arms and legs can't be lifted, so it can't come out, I've only encountered a corpse that has been put down by the charm before, and I don't know which one is more powerful than the zombie, but it seems that today we must have to take a picture with the zombie, because we will open the bronze coffin later, As for whether there are zombies in the ghost coffin in front of you, it's hard to say, in short, let's be prepared and stop it in advance. ”
As I spoke, I had prepared the "stumbling rope", Shirley Yang according to the position of the two coffins in the "wooden coffin", lit two candles in the corner, I raised my hand to the fat man, and the fat man immediately used a sharp "probing claw" to scrape off the red lacquer sealed at the interface of the "ghost coffin", the dark blue "ghost coffin" material is a rare special stone, if you want to classify, you can classify it together with the jade coffin and so on as a sarcophagus, this sarcophagus has no coffin nails, all stone mortise and tenon are closed, touch the "probe claw" of the golden captain, It's like a versatile Swiss Army knife, one end is specially designed for drawing stone tenons.
"Ghost coffin" has a total of seven mortise and tenon joints, one on the head, three on each side, the bottom is not, the fat man is very happy, one after another, in a moment, the coffin lid is pried open, and there is a layer of fish glue under the coffin cover, which has long been dead, and can only use the "probe claw" needle, reach into it and grind it a little bit.
In the end, I only heard the fat man shout, "Come on." "I and Shirley Yang waited for the opportunity on the side, saw that it was almost, so I immediately put three cinnabar "stumbling ropes", stopped on the coffin, the coffin lid opened, the visibility in the "wooden coffin", did not see the drop, which means that there is no corpse gas in the coffin, I said in my heart strange, there are no bones in it, or the structure of the ghost coffin is not strict, the filth after the autopsy has dissipated along the coffin cracks, I quickly went to see the "ghost coffin" inside.
At a glance, he put his mind at ease, there was indeed the body of the coffin owner, there was a male corpse lying flat in the coffin, below the neck, wrapped in white brocade, only the head could be seen, the corpse was relatively well preserved, and even the facial muscles did not collapse and atrophy, it is not an exaggeration to say that it was lifelike, but his death was really terrifying, the two eye sockets were deeply sunk in, forming two black and red holes, the eyeballs had been removed, and due to the lack of eyes in the facial features, it looked extremely terrifying.
I was about to take a closer look, but the fat man had used the "haunting rope" to put the coffin master's head on the head, pulled him up from the coffin, raised his hand to open the bow left and right, and slapped the dead body seven or eight times.
Shirley Yang and I were stupid, thinking that this fat guy had taken another step, could it be that he had fallen into evil? Quickly stop him and ask him what he wants to do.
The fat man's face was covered with a gas mask, and I couldn't see his face, but I heard him ask inexplicably: "Haven't you seen it yet?" ”